Start time and day off preferences

Start time and day off preferences enable employees to indicate their preferences for a particular start time or day off. For example, employees can state their preferences to start work at 9 am and to have a day off on Friday.

Start time and day off preferences are set in the User Management Module that an administrator uses to create a profile for each employee in their organization. module, under Employees and Schedule Preferences.

Example: Set start time and day off preferences

An employee can state a preference to start on Monday at 6 am, Tuesday at 7 am, and to have days off on Wednesday and Saturday.

Employees can rank any of these choices and can also select multiple preferences and rank them from most to least important. For example, an employee can state that his highest preference is to start work at 9 am, his second preference is to start work at 10 am, and his third preference is to start work at 11 am.

Now the employee also wants to add day-off preferences. It is important to note that day off preferences are part of the same preferences scale as start time preferences.

Note:

By giving a Start Time Preference a 1 and giving a Day Off Preference a 2, you are stating that the start time preference is more important than the day off preference.
If the scheduling engine needs to select between assigning this person a start time or day off preference, it selects the start time preference because it is more important.
In this case, the employee has selected Friday as his most important preference for a day off and Tuesday as his second. The employee has also stated that these day off preferences are less important then his start time preferences.

Early or Late start time preference

Users also have a choice of selecting a start time preference of Early or Late. This choice is less important than the specific start time preferences. It is used if no specific start time preferences can be scheduled.

For example, an employee cannot be scheduled for one of his preferred start times of 9 am, 10 am, or 11 am. Therefore, the scheduling engine determines the start times based on the more general Early or Late start time preference.

This preference is also used when the employee only states a preference for Early or Late, and does not select specific start time preferences.

For example, an employee asks for as early a start time as is possible. In this case, there is no need to specify start time preferences. Instead, just select the Early setting.